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171743P.pdf 06/13/2018 Jonathan Ervin v. Michael Bowersox
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 17-1743
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Shepherd and Erickson, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - Habeas. Missouri courts did not unreasonably apply clearly
established federal law when they held that admission of, and the state's
reference to, the entirety of Ervin's post-Miranda interview did not
constitute a violation under Doyle v. Ohio, 426 U.S. 610 (1976), because
the playing of interview and the references to it were not designed to
draw meaning from Ervin's eventual assertion of his right to remain
silent; nor did the Missouri courts err in determining that even if a
Doyle violation had occurred, the error was harmless in the light of the
overwhelming evidence of Ervin's guilt.